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C.U.Tech Begins Clearing Space on Roosevelt Island Construction begins with razing of Coler-Goldwater Hospital buildings
By SOFIA HU Sun Staff Writer
Demolition of Coler-Goldwater Hospital, which currently sits on the site of Cornell NYC Tech’s multi-billion dollar campus, officially began this week, according to Cornell Tech Vice President Cathy Dove. Since Cornell signed the lease for the Roosevelt Island property with former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg in December, workers have prepared the ground, built a fence surrounding the construction site and started the interior demolition of Coler-Goldwater Hospital, according to Dove. After so much anticipation and planning, Dove said she
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Roosevelt Island | A rendering of Cornell NYC Tech shows what the campus will look like after construction is complete in 2037. is excited about the beginning of construction. “The arrival of the first barge was particularly exciting,” Dove said in an email. “Cornell has worked hard to design the largest voluntary barging program in NYC. We are pleased to see it underway.” The announcement marks another important moment after a series of milestones for the school in 2013, includ-
ing the start of Cornell Tech classes in Jan. 2013, the launch of several new degree programs and the beginning of collaborations with several developers, The Sun previously reported. Early electrical work will begin in the next two months, See TECH page 4
Scott Brown to Talk Politics at C.U.in Feb. Email Slip-Up
By TYLER ALICEA Sun Senior Writer
Former Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown will discuss Congressional gridlock and partisan politics during an address in Kennedy Hall Feb. 6. Scott is most notably known for his bipartisanship within the Senate, according to Kyle Ezzedine ’14, chairman of the C.U. College Republicans. Scott’s “moderate” stance within the Republican party prompted the College Republicans to bring him to Cornell, Ezzedine said.
NYC Tech’s Greg Pass Holds Q&A
“We’re trying to get a different angle of the Republican Party, [someone] who is not for the partisan politics that are happening right now,” Ezzedine said. When serving as Sen. Ted Kennedy’s successor in teh Senate from 2010 - 13, Brown was the first Republican in the Senate from Massachusetts since 1972, according to a Cornell Republicans press release. Prior to his time in Congress, he served in both the Massachusetts State House of Representatives and the State Senate. The former senator is now a com-
mentator on FOX News, according to a press release. The event — entitled “Beyond Labels: The Problem with Partisanship” and sponsored by the Cornell University college Republicans — will be free and open to the public, according to the Cornell Republicans. Brown’s address in 116 Kennedy Hall will be begin at six p.m. and will be followed by an audience Q&A session and a book signing event. Tyler Alicea can be reached at talicea@cornellsun.com.
Say yes to the dress
By HELEN DONNELLY Sun Staff Writer
The Johnson Graduate School of Management hosted an interactive question and answer session about the one-year M.B.A program at Cornell Tech in New York City. Greg Pass, founding Chief Entrepreneurial officer at Cornell Tech, and Christine Sneva, PASS executive director of admissions and financial aid, led this See Q&A page 4
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“Chinese Traditional Dress and it’s Influence 1840-1960,” an exhibit sponsored by the Department of Fiber Science and Apparel Design, on display in the Human Ecology Building.
Scares Parents
By GABRIELLA LEE Sun Staff Writer
Cornell’s Division of University Communications mistakenly sent an internal emergency notification email to students parents on Thursday at 2:53 p.m., causing concern among parents, according to message recipients. The email included a list of University officials to contact for the week of Jan. 24 through Jan. 31. “The following persons are “[I was] grateful on call for the for the communi- Media Relations Office, Dean of cation...parents Students Office need to be aware.” and Human Resources. All Melissa Shaw emergency situations and sensitive issues should be reported to them,” the email read. A correction was subsequently sent to parents at 3:40 p.m. that day, asking parents to disregard the previous email. The message clarified that there was no campus emergency and that the email was supposed to be an internal communication to maintain the weekly list of on-call contact information. “We apologize for mistakenly sending you a message this afternoon regarding Emergency Notifications. We are not See EMAIL page 4
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News, “Cornell University Restricts East Avenue Traffic Until April 2015,” Tuesday Speaking about the traffic restriction on East Avenue due to the construction of Klarman Hall “We have been working closely with the University from the very start of the project to make this a winwin for everyone involved. Good planning on the part of the project manager, Transportation Services and TCAT staff is enabling us to keep our buses flowing through central campus.”
Winter Landscapes 10 a.m. - 4 p.m., Nevin Welcome Center Cornell Plantations Book Display 11:30 a.m. - 4 p.m., Adelson Library, Lab of Ornithology, Johnson Center for Birds and Biodiversity Cognitive Science at Cornell Colloquium Series 3:30 p.m., 202 Uris Hall
Nancy Oltz, TCAT’s operations manager
News, “ILR Alumnus Returns to University From Department of Labor,” Thursday Speaking about his desire to help ILR students pursue jobs “I’ve had a lot of experience helping folks to find jobs in my field, and so I want to impart to them the knowledge that I’ve collected over the years and help as many [Industrial and Labor Relations] students pursue the job that they most want.” Seth Harris ’83, former deputy secretary of labor
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News, “Alumnus, Khurana ’89, to Serve as Next Dean of Harvard College,” Thursday Speaking about Khurana’s connections to and understanding of Harvard University
Chinese Traditional Dress and Its Influence 8 a.m. - 8 p.m., Terrace Level Display Cases Human Ecology Building
“His experiences as a graduate student, an award-winning teacher at [Harvard Business School] and the master of an undergraduate house give him a unique perspective on the University, and his deep respect for the liberal-arts model and the residential education will serve him well as he guides Harvard College.”
Beyond Earth Art: Contemporary Artists and the Environment 10 a.m. - 5 p.m., Johnson Museum of Art
Harvard President Drew Faust
Food/Water/Life: Lucy and Jorge Ortega 10 a.m. - 5 p.m., Johnson Museum of Art North Campus Food Show 1 - 4 p.m., Robert Purcell Community Center
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Opinion, “Cornell ROTC Does Its Part to Make U.S. Domination Seem Normal,” Thursday Speaking about what he thinks the goals of ROTC mean “The ROTC slogan really means ‘unless we portray our armed forces as warm-hearted heroes, Americans may not support their expensive, amoral domination of other countries.’ This is precisely why the armed services spend hundreds of millions of dollars a year on videos, commercials, movies, football and basketball games, parades and NASCAR teams. These ads bombard us with the positive words ‘honor,’ ‘freedom,’ ‘democracy’ and ‘security.’” Caleb Rossiter ’73 Ph.D. ’83
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Flu Cases at Cornell Have Yet to Reach Peak Levels
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8,000 vaccines have been administered by Gannett this season, with only a few flu cases seen so far By AIMEE CHO
early January will have an impact on the Cornell community as the semester gets underway,” she said. Although the Center for Disease Compared to other years, Cornell stuControl recently released a report saying dents may be in greater danger of the flu cases of the flu are at an “epidemic” level in due to the nature of the spreading virus, the United States, Cornell has avoided according to Dittman. This year, the H1N1 being hit by the virus so far, according to strain — the same strain that caused swine Sharon Dittman, Gannett Health Service’s flu in 2009 — is the “primary” cause of flu associate director for community relations. around the country, according to CBS However, this delay could be due to the fact News. Unlike the common flu strain, which that most students just returned to campus. mainly affects children and seniors, H1N1 Dittman said since the start of the spring targets 18-64 year-old adults. semester, the number of flu cases at Gannett Cornell’s young adult population has has been “quite low.” been hit hard by H1N1 in the past. “As the saying goes, ‘so far, so good’ “In the 2009 to 2010 pandemic, when it comes to flu season Gannett diagnosed over at Cornell,” Dittman said. “‘So far, so good’ 1,800 students with H1N1. However, Dittman said People who tend to be sick that since most students are when it comes to flu include young and otherwise not on campus over winter season at Cornell.” healthy adults,” Dittman break, Cornell’s peak flu said. Sharon Dittman season usually takes place In addition to students later than the rest of the being away from campus, country. the flu may not be hitting Cornell as hard as “The typical flu season at Cornell usual- the rest of the country because community ly gets underway in late January or members have been taking preventative February, so it’s really too soon to tell actions, according to Dittman. whether flu activity that was widespread in “The Cornell community is very wellthe rest of the country in late December and informed about and widely engaged in flu
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Cold, cold season | Although flu levels have been low, many students have still been sick with similar illnesses, according to Sharon Dittman, Gannett’s associate director for community relations. prevention strategies,” she said. “Frequent handwashing, use of alcohol-based hand cleaners, cleaning of shared surfaces and avoiding people who are sick are very common practices at Cornell, and they really do make a difference in cutting down on transmission of flu viruses.” Vaccines have also helped protect the Cornell community from the flu, according to Dittman. Gannett has given 8,000 flu vaccines so far this season, Dittman said. “Vaccination protects not only those who get vaccinated, but others as well,” she said. Students who develop flu symptoms — muscle aches, high fever, coughing and fatigue — should stay home from class and get plenty of rest and liquids, according to Gannett’s website.
However, the website suggested that students who have an underlying health condition or develop more serious symptoms such as vomiting, shortness of breath, dizziness or significantly high fevers should see a doctor immediately. Dittman said although Gannett is not currently seeing many cases of the flu, people are still sick with other related illnesses — including colds, coughs and sore throats. “Almost all of these illnesses can be transmitted to others before a person even knows they are sick,” said Dittman. “This is a good time to take especially good care of yourself and take precautions around other people.” Aimee Cho can be reached at acho@cornellsun.com.
S.A.Begins Semester With Packed Agenda Burning By RACHEL WEBER Sun Staff Writer
The Student Assembly has begun to outline its plans for quality of life initiatives, modified elections rules and implementation of last semester’s resolutions, according to Ulysses Smith ’14, S.A. president. Smith said the appropriations committee’s first task is to decide what to do with the S.A.’s endowment, which has accumulated to about $1 million. According to Geoffrey Block ’14, S.A. vice president of finance, the original purpose of the endowment was to self-fund the S.A. Finance Committee when the endowment grew large enough. However, last year, S.A. members determined that the endowment would not be large enough for this purpose until about 2150, according to Block. The S.A. is now determining how best to allocate these funds for current purposes, according to Block.
“One of the options that we are exploring is an innovation fund whereby the S.A., essentially for forever, would be able to grant about $25,000 a year to students working in a number of entrepreneurial activities, whether it be starting up a new club, starting up an organization, or starting up a non-profit,” Block said. The S.A. passed a resolution to use the endowment to support an innovation fund at the end of last semester. The resolution proved to be highly contentious within the S.A., as some members did not want to allocate capital for both byline funding and the innovation council, said Smith. Block said he believes an innovation fund would fill a hole by creating a place to give large grants to groups on campus, as no such fund currently exists. With the endowment, Block said the S.A. can address the “unique financing need on campus” for non-traditional organizations with high start-up costs, such as Cornell Big Red Radio, a
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S.A. sound off | Members of the Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán (MEChA) speak at an S.A. meeting on Thursday.
“burdensome rules” that have new sports radio station. “By giving [funding] back to “hindered creative campaigns” in the student groups, student orga- the past, according to S.A. candinizations and businesses — espe- dates are now allowed to endorse cially those focused on improving S.A. presidential and executive candidates, the local Ithaca community — I vice-presidential think this can be a very powerful according to Muglia. He added that the new tool,” Block rules will said. encourage stuSmith, on “I expect that the the other initiatives that candidates dent organizations to hand, said he would like the pursue will be more in line endorse candidates more S.A. to use the with student interests.” often. money for a Muglia “tangible pro- Alfonse Muglia ’14 said he ject” that believes the would benefit upcoming debates and forums the student body. “Personally, something I’ve surrounding the election will give been talking to [Student Trustee] students a better understanding of Ross Gitlin ’15 about is that I’d each candidate’s initiatives. “These new election guidelines love to see us do something that would benefit all students,” Smith will promote more intriguing said, suggesting a renovation of elections. As a result, I expect that the initiatives that candidates purWillard Straight Hall. Smith said that although he is sue will be more in line with stuaware that this renovation will dent interests,” Muglia said. Additionally, last semester the require more money than the S.A.’s endowment can provide, S.A. created a University Student allocating these funds to fix up Court to oversee disputes brought Willard Straight could kick-start a by student organizations against the S.A, The Sun reported in late campaign for the cause. In addition to debating what October. Instead of an independent to do with the endowment, the S.A. will review the first year of body, the court will now be a judiimplementation of Resolution 45, cial commission within the S.A. called “United Student Body,” modeled off of similar courts at which will require every group other universities, according to registered with the Student Smith. “We’re entering the implemenActivities Office to create and exetation and revision stages of [this cute a diversity plan. Several changes will be coming resolution],” Smith said. Smith said he believes the to S.A. elections this year, according to Alfonse Muglia ’14, direc- court will be implemented by tor of elections for the Student March. Assembly. The Elections Committee stripped this March’s Rachel Weber can be reached at S.A. elections of many of the rweber@cornellsun.com.
Question What has been the worst part about the subzero temperatures that invaded campus this week? “My boogers froze.” — Snotty McFee ’15 “People taking their shoes off in Uris Library. Luckily, I don’t have a nose.” — Lord Voldemort ’14 “Having to wear a hat to bed.” — Cold Cabeza ’17 “Nobody looks checkoutworthy on the way to class anymore.” — Horny Hatty ’14 “Getting to class late and having to awkwardly wiggle out of my eskimo gear in my seat.” — Struggs N’Uggs ’15 “I’m so cold, I’m shivering.” — Patrick Star ’16 “The cold never bothered me anyway.” — Frozen Fan ’17 –– Compiled by Dara Levy
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together to solve real-world problems proposed by companies such as Google, Qualcomm and eBay. For start-up projects, live webcast from the New York City campus. engineering students and MBA students will Through an online forum, participants could come together and form teams to work on send in questions while streaming the event their own ideas. live from their computer screens. Pass said having engineers and MBA stuPrior to joining Cornell Tech, Pass was dents collaborate is essential for their projects’ Chief Technology Officer and Vice President success. of Engineering at Twitter, according to a “Honest conversations and hard questions Johnson press release. Now, as Chief bring people together,” said Pass. “The only Entrepreneurial Officer of Cornell Tech, he way to bridge this gap is to have discussions on moderates practicums every Friday. The a weekly basis.” practicums — either active Engineering students discussions or working sesalso come together to “We want to transform sions — often feature improve computer coding, guests in a variety of fields, Pass said. Cornell Tech the MBA degree into including entrepreneurs, works to enhance the qualsomething that the tech ity of code and ensure that lawyers and artists. Pass also spoke about the code is produced at a ecosystem Cornell Tech’s new MBA real world standard of degree. quality, he added. uses today.” “We want to transform In addition, the proGreg Pass the MBA degree into gram aims to create a betsomething that the tech ter career trajectory for ecosystem uses today,” he product managers, who said. “The priority is to have the campus at the will help investigate and develop products for center of the tech ecosystem.” an organization, according to Pass. The MBA program integrates innovation, “There is a huge gap in product managebusiness and technology, The Sun previously ment. People are always contacting me about reported. whom to hire, and people ask more about “This program seeks to address the discon- product managers than engineers,” Pass said. nect between the business community and the The ultimate goal of the program is to engineering community. A big part of the change graduate tech education by making it opportunity here is to fill that gap,” Pass said. more current and applicable. according to One way this interdisciplinary program Pass. incorporates both business and engineering is “The best outcome would be that, in 100 through collaborative projects. Themes for years from now, Cornell Tech would be recogprojects include storytelling, product design, nized as a pivot where graduate tech education social entrepreneurship, venture capital and became more relevant to the twenty-first cendigital privacy, according to Pass. tury,” Pass said. There are two types of projects in the program, according to Pass: enterprise and start- Helen Donnelly can be reached at hdonnelly@cornellup. In enterprise projects, students work sun.com. Continued from page 1
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Concrete city | A rendering of Cornell NYC Tech shows an aerial view of the future Roosevelt Island campus looking north.
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according to a summary from the construction task force, a body responsible for the construction of the tech campus. Construction on the first academic building will commence this summer, the task force added. The complete demolition of Coler-Goldwater Hospital is expected to take at least a year, according to Dove. Despite the recent cold fronts affecting New York City, construction is expected to stay on schedule. “We believe the schedule is reasonable and do not expect any significant delays that would jeopardize the opening of the campus in Summer 2017. Typical NYC weather should not impact our construction schedule,” Dove said. Once completed, the campus will place an emphasis on sustainability with the first academic building generating enough energy to run itself, The Sun previously reported. Cornell Tech is documenting the progress of its construction
on a blog, so that others can keep track of its progress, which Dove says will allows for the Roosevelt Island community to stay aware of the campus’ activities. “Thus far we have received very positive feedback from those who have accessed the [blog],” Dove said. In June 2013, Cornell Tech named Forest City Ratner Companies the “master developer” of the first phase of construction, The Sun previously reported. In addition, Hudson Companies and Related Companies will oversee construction on the campus’ first residential building, which is expected to begin in early 2015. Planners predict that the multi-staged construction project will be complete in 2037, with the first phase of construction projected to be complete in 2017. Until the Roosevelt Island campus opens its doors, Cornell Tech will continue to operate out of space donated by Google in Manhattan. Sofia Hu can be reached at shu@cornellsun.com
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experiencing a campus emergency, so please do not be concerned by the message,” Tracy Vosburgh, assistant vice president for University Communications, said in an email. The email sparked worry among parents, however, after opening the message their alarm subdued. “If I see the words ‘Cornell’ and ‘emergency’ together in an email of course I will open it, but then it was just a list of names and telephones to contact.” In general, Shaw said she was “grateful for the communication
[from Cornell], because parents need to be aware of what is happening.” She added that she thought that Cornell was “really good” at keeping parents informed about emergency situations on campus and that in the past she had also received text messages during campus emergencies. As she received no text message, Shaw said she did not think the mistaken email was “something [she] should be worried about.” Gabriella Lee can be reached at glee@cornellsun.com.
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Virginia’s Attorney General Claims Same-Sex Marriage Ban Violates Fourteenth Amendment
Detroit Seeks Immigrant Visas To Bring Economy Back to Life
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Gay marriage moved the ban. closer to gaining its first foothold in the South when “I have now concluded that Virginia’s ban on Virginia’s attorney general said Thursday that the marriage between same sex couples violates the state’s ban on same-sex matrimony is unconstitu- Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution tional and he will join the fight to get it struck on two grounds: Marriage is a fundamental right down. being denied to some Virginians, and the ban “It’s time for the commonwealth to be on the unlawfully discriminates on the basis of both sexual right side of history and the right side of the law,” orientation and gender,” he said. newly elected Democrat Mark R. Herring said in a A federal judge will hear arguments in one of state that fiercely resisted school integration and those lawsuits next week. interracial marriage in the 1950s and ‘60s. Herring stressed the ban will be enforced in the meantime, meaning clerks will Republicans accused Herring of continue to deny marriage licenses shirking his duty to defend the “It’s time for the to same-sex couples. state’s laws after less than two In a movement that began with weeks on the job, while gay rights commonwealth to be on activists exulted over the latest in a the right side of history.” Massachusetts in 2004, 17 states and the District of Columbia now string of victories — this one in a Mark R. Herring allow gay marriage, most of them conservative and usually hostile clustered in the Northeast. None region of the country. “It’s a nice day to be an American from Virginia,” of them is in the old Confederacy. In just the past five weeks, federal judges struck Tom Shuttleworth, one of the lawyers challenging down gay marriage prohibitions in deeply conservathe ban, said in an email. The move reflects the rise of a new Democratic tive Utah and Oklahoma, but those rulings are on leadership in Virginia and illustrates how rapidly the hold while they are appealed. “It’s enormously powerful that Virginia is taking political and legal landscape on gay marriage in the this position,” said gay rights advocate James Esseks, U.S. is shifting. Herring, as a state senator, supported Virginia’s director of the LGBT Project for the American Civil 2006 voter-approved constitutional amendment Liberties Union. “It is a solid part of the South. This defining marriage as the union of a man and is not the Northeast. This is not California.” Richard Socarides, who was a senior policy adviswoman. But he said he decided after a “thorough legal review” that it is unconstitutional, and he will er in the Clinton administration, called Herring’s join gay couples in two federal lawsuits challenging action “a tipping point.”
DETROIT (AP) — Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder asked the federal government Thursday to set aside thousands of work visas for bankrupt Detroit, a bid to revive the decaying city by attracting talented immigrants who are willing to move there and stay for five years. The Republican governor has routinely touted immigration as a powerful potential force for growing Detroit’s economy, saying immigrant entrepreneurs start many small businesses and file patents at twice the rate of U.S.-born citizens. “Let’s send a message to the entire world: Detroit, Michigan, is open to the world,” Snyder said at a news conference. The proposal involves EB-2 visas, which are offered every year to legal immigrants who have advanced degrees or show exceptional ability in certain fields. But the governor’s ambitious plan faces significant hurdles: The visas are not currently allocated by region or state. And the number he is seeking — 50,000 over five years — would be a quarter of the total EB-2 visas offered. The program would require no federal financial bailout, the governor said, only the easing of immigration rules and visa limits to help fill jobs in automotive engineering, information technology, health care and life sciences. “It’s really taking up the offer of the federal government to say they want to help more,” Snyder said. “Isn’t this a great way that doesn’t involve large-scale financial contributions from the federal government to do something dramatic in Detroit?” He said the Obama administration has “been receptive to us bringing significant ideas to them, and this would be near the top of the list.” Snyder, a first-term governor who made millions as a computer industry executive and venture capitalist, said it’s not clear whether the White House could act administratively or if such a change would require legislative action. He said he’s talking about the proposal with Michigan’s congressional delegation and plans private meetings Friday with administration officials while in Washington for a panel discussion about the economic benefits of an immigration overhaul. The governor’s proposal seemed to take officials by surprise at the State Department, which works with the Homeland Security Department to decide on visa requests. In Washington, State Department deputy spokeswoman Marie Harf told reporters Thursday that she was aware of the governor’s comments but had no immediate response. Snyder’s office has said immigrants created nearly one-third of the high-tech businesses in Michigan in the last decade, and he cited a study that found for every job that goes to an immigrant, 2.5 are created for U.S.-born citizens. Being more welcoming to immigrants would also make the city more attractive to employers. “The point isn’t just to say, ‘Let’s have a lot of jobs created in Detroit for immigrants,’“ he said. “Let’s step this up. Let’s do something that could really be a jumpstart to the continuing comeback of Michigan and Detroit.” The city, the largest in American history to file for bankruptcy, has been hollowed out by a long population decline, from 1.8 million people in its heyday of the 1950s, to about 713,000 today at the time of the 2010 census. During that time, Detroit steadily lost many of its manufacturing jobs, and huge numbers of workers fled to the suburbs. The governor is trying to find flexibility in a waiver that allows foreign workers with a master’s degree or higher — or who demonstrate exceptional skills in science, business or art — to come to the U.S. if it’s in the “national interest.”
Justin Bieber’s ‘Clean Cut’ Image Stained By Confessions of Illegal Drug and Alcohol Abuse MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) — When he debuted five years ago, Justin Bieber was a mop-haired heartthrob, clean cut and charming. But a series of troubling incidents have put his innocent image at risk, and none more so than his arrest on DUI charges Thursday. Police say they arrested a bleary-eyed Bieber — smelling of alcohol — after officers saw him drag-racing before dawn on a palm-lined residential street, his yellow Lamborghini traveling at nearly twice the speed limit. The 19-year-old singer later admitted smoking marijuana, drinking and taking a prescription medication, police say. Unlike previous episodes, this arrest has him facing potential jail time. Bieber was charged with DUI, driving with an expired license and resisting arrest without violence. His Miami-Dade County jail mug shot showed the singer smiling in a bright red inmate jumpsuit, his hair still stylishly coiffed. He was arrested with R&B singer Khalil Amir Sharieff, after police say they raced two luxury vehicles down the street at 4:09 a.m., with two other vehicles apparently being used to block off the area. Police Chief Ray Martinez said the singer was initially not coop-
erative when the officer pulled him over. Martinez said the singer also had an expired Georgia driver’s license. Police said Bieber was driving the Lamborghini and Sharieff was driving a Ferrari. Both cars were towed. Police say Bieber was clocked at 55 to 60 mph in a 30 mph zone near a high school, youth center, golf course, city firehouse and small apartment buildings. According to the arrest report, Bieber “had slow deliberate movements” and appeared to be in a stupor when the officer ordered him to exit his vehicle. Bieber was arrested after repeatedly refusing to put his hands on his vehicle so the officer could pat him down to look for weapons, the report said. It says he cursed several times at the officer and demanded to know why he was being arrested. At one point, Bieber said to an officer: “What the f--- did I do, why did you stop me?” Bieber failed a field sobriety test and was taken to the Miami Beach police station for a Breathalyzer, police said. Results haven’t been released. “I think this case will proceed hopefully as any other case would proceed,” said Bieber's attorney, Roy Black, whose other celebrity
clients have included Rush Limbaugh and William Kennedy Smith Under Florida law, people under the age of 21 are considered driving under the influence if they have a blood-alcohol content of 0.02 percent or more — a level the 5-foot-9, 140-pound star could reach with one drink. For a first DUI offense, there is no minimum jail sentence and a maximum of six months, a fine of $250 to $500, and 50 hours of community service. For anyone under 21, there is an automatic six-month license suspension. A Miami-Dade County judge set Bieber's bond at $2,500 on Thursday afternoon. Sharieff's bond was set at $1,000 for a DUI charge. Bieber left jail about an hour after court, popping through a window of his black SUV in a black hoodie and sunglasses to wave to crowds of reporters and young girls waiting to see him. He reportedly spent far more money at a Miami strip club Monday night, when the King of Diamonds club tweeted that Bieber ordered $75,000 in dollar bills. The club's operator later acknowledged that was an exaggeration, and that the singer only stayed about an hour.
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Last month, the University reported that 980 students graduated from the Hill in December, a record number. We at the Sun wanted to shed some light on the early graduation phenomenon. So we enlisted our best Berry Patch reporters — basically the most consistent Rulloff’s goers — and sent them to figure out the mystery behind what these record number of graduates are doing while still hanging around in Ithaca. According to the experts, the recent alumni have put down the books and finished studying, only to pick up some really engaging activities to fill their time instead. Fishbowls: Who doesn’t love going out on weeknights, alcoholic drinks that change the color of your tongue and plastic animals floating in homes made for fish? Well, the recent graduates sure do, as many are flocking to Level B to party like it’s 2013. And hey, even though they are no longer enrolled in classes, the alumni are still learning about Mother Nature and species identification via the creatures they find in their concoctions. So that must count for something. Napping: After four years of studying and pretending to do hard work, the recent grads have turned in their caps in exchange for fluffy pillows. Most of the 980 grads have retired to their beds for some much-needed R&R. Napping isn’t ageist anymore. Kindergarteners and 20-somethings alike can grab their teddies and snooze for that special hour ... or three. Netflix Binging: As the elders of the undergrads on campus, the once-were seniors have taken to their couches with bottles of wine and lots of Netflix. Our carefully executed and statistically significant surveys show Hulu coming in a close second place for favorite streaming site, but the endless marathon possibilities and obscure documentaries made Netflix the clear winner. The seemingly real adults have been filling their now empty hours with Vampire Diaries, Say Yes to the Dress and other potential Emmy nominees, instead of trekking to campus in negative-degree weather. Applying for Jobs: Just kidding.
AWKO-CHOCO I had a meeting with the director of the Honors Program and headed to Libe after which my friend asks, “What’s on your face?” Apparently, I sat through the entire meeting with a big smudge of chocolate on my nose. Thanks a lot, Café Jennie, for helping me take “brown noser” to a new level. — L.B. TIME MANAGEMENT I am just SO HAPPY that I have gone to two classes today and found out that all of the tests/quizzes/papers for both are all the same weeks. I love stressing about struggle weeks months in advance. Thanks Cornell! — C.F. CALS STRUGGLES Things that I don’t understand: 1. Why are all of my Arts and Sciences 10:00 a.m. economics classes on the Ag Quad? 2. Why don’t I have a bus pass? 3. Why did I decline California schools? — M.R
I THINK THIS IS WHY FACEBOOK WAS INVENTED Why can’t professors actually teach us something on the first day instead of going over grading metrics on syllabi, which we can read by ourselves at three times the speed of their monotone speech? — D.O. MORE THINGS THAT MAKE SENSE The exam schedule won’t be finalized until mid-February. Why can’t professors distribute the workload more evenly throughout the semester instead of pretending to be laid-back at first, and then dumping on a ton of work in week four? — D.O. WHO NEEDS WATER? My landlord turned off the heat over break, so our pipes froze. — A.L. THIS IS WHY I DON’T PLAN AHEAD My roommate left the food I spent three
hours making so I would have dinner for the week out, so I had to throw it away. — A.L. NOW MY BOOKS CAN’T SIT UNDER MY BED ALL SEMESTER How the hell can The Cornell Store and the textbook publisher be sold out of a book when it is very easy to find out how many students are taking the class, and will therefore need the book? Order enough for the whole lecture, guys! — K.B. PEOPLE GOT CREATIVE I’m prematurely annoyed about all the kvetches about the weather that will inevitably appear in this paper. Trust me, I know the science of a kvetch all too well. — L.C. MELTED BRAIN I just want to make it clear that ice breakers at 10 a.m. that require thinking are outright unnecessary. — T.A.
CORRECTION A Jan. 23 news story, “Cornell Grad Student Joins City Council,” incorrectly said the Common Council members were sworn in Jan. 1. In fact, they were sworn in by Mayor Svante Myrick on Dec. 31. In addition, the article incorrectly said the Council was exclusively Democratic since 2003, when in fact, Jennifer Dotson — a former representative of the First Ward who did not run for reelection in November — is a member of the Green Party.
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Nicholas Kaasick | Barely Legal
Mother Mink Eats Her Young
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irst year law students at Cornell read a case about a mink farmer who is aggrieved because his minks, when startled by distant blasting, eat their young as a survival mechanism. If you’re an American mink, this makes sense. A mink’s young provide a ready source of energy to help flee from a predator. If you’re America, on the other hand, eating your young is less intelligent. As a member of the generation of victims of this future-cannibalization, I protest. The oh-so-benevolent mother mink of our country are our plutocrats. In fear of future tax increases, and due to a lack of concern for the poor and middle class, our mother mink demand austerity. They demand we ravage the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, unemployment assistance, education budgets, Medicaid and the like so that their taxes do not increase. Our mother mink are eating the young for their benefit and calling it responsibility. The working poor, the squeezed members of the middle class, the children and the sick suffer to protect the effective tax rates of our mother mink. We suffer from a deceptive game with the odds stacked against us, our hopes and dreams keeping us desperately playing with the prospect of ending up like our mother mink. Perhaps she is not actually who we should aspire to be. Our system is unjust. The game is rigged. It is not enough that we, from our high Cornell perch, may be the ones born on third base, for the injustice of the system is no less real because we cannot see beyond the manicured gardens of our campus. The wickedness of a society which permits our children to live in
We have forgotten, in our desperate quest to join the one percent, the weakness of ‘I’ and the power of ‘us.’ poverty while others have enough disposable income to name academic buildings and professorships after themselves is no less profound because it is us learning in these monuments to narcissism and plutocratic posterity. In the face of such immense inequality and suffering, it is understandable that we, too, leap desperately towards the receding ladder of socioeconomic mobility. The understandable fear of being left behind as society’s wealth is ever more concentrated in the hands of a select few is a powerful motivator. We furiously pad resumes, work unpaid internships, collect staggering mountains of debt and turn to Adderall to memorize subjects otherwise too uninteresting to endure. Somewhere along the way, however, we have lost sight of why we allow ourselves to be all-consumed by this never ending rigged game. We have forgotten, in our desperate quest to join the one percent, the weakness of “I” and the power of “us.” The disease of individualism leaves us competing against one another with forced grading curves, prep courses for standardized tests, coveted (unpaid) internships and the like. We should examine, however, whether, in the course of comparing our grades to our classmates’, we’ve been distracted by the rat race and missed something. Namely, that a select few are running away with all the money. As individuals, we are powerless in the face of such an overwhelming concentration of wealth and the ensuing corruption of our political, legal and social order. Yet, as a generation of citizens, we can compel change. We can rewrite the rules of the game and create a saner and more just society. The power of law is immense. Law can be used to guarantee human rights and human dignity, as well as protect the interests of an entrenched plutocracy. Laws come from our democratic institutions which should, in theory, protect the interests of the majority most of the time. In practice, our institutions have abandoned us, the powerless, unorganized and desperate individual members of the millennial generation, to curry favor with those who have the kind of money that buys influence into our national discourse and distracts us while our country cannibalizes our future in defense of these select few. We can do better. We must do better. Surely, we are not so thoroughly beaten, lame and submissive so as to not be able to work together for a shared prosperity? We are paying much too high a price, in our health, our well-being and our economy, to protect the plutocratic few. We are working harder than we need to, and we aren’t receiving enough in return. It is time for our generation to recognize the very real harms of this cognitive dissonance. It should be uncontroversial that in a country where one in five children live in poverty, those who are naming buildings and schools after themselves aren’t being taxed enough. How long before we acknowledge that the illusory promise of the American dream is a façade used to keep us from organizing for a shared prosperity? How long before we stand up to our mother mink and stop the cannibalization of our potential? We, too, must harness the power of law to promote our interests. It’s time to begin. Nicholas Kaasik is a third year in the Cornell Law School and the Sun’s Public Editor. He may be reached at nek43@cornell.edu. Barely Legal runs monthly this semester.
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“It’s my opinion that Muslims “frustration” with Israel and has more to do with Islam: Islam and its supremacist, hate-filled ideology. How else can one explain Islam’s violently aggressive roles in the following regions where the Israeli situation is non-existent. The common denominator – the only common denominator – IS Islam.” Arafat Re: “KAIREY: The Boycott to Nowhere” Opinion, published Jan. 23, 2014
Bailey Dineen | Genderfucked
A Look Into My Sex Life E
xcited? Well, I’m sorry to disappoint but the catch is: There’s not much to it. I’ll admit this with no shame, as it is not due to some character flaw on my part (I think…) but, rather, to an aspect of my sexuality — a thing called, asexuality. There are many dimensions of sexuality. However, we don’t seem to consider this, because the conversation tends to stop short at the dimension that looks at the sex of our partners. For instance, the Kinsey scale looks at the spectrum between heterosexuality and homosexuality. But there are plenty of other dimensions that define our individual sexualities: how we like to have sex, what we fantasize about, what turns us on, how much sex we have and so on. The dimension that defines my extreme lack of a sex life measures the spectrum between the one extreme of being sexual (experiencing sexual attraction) and the other of being asexual (not experiencing sexual attraction). As with the Kinsey scale’s spectrum, there exist between the two extremes infinite degrees of experiencing sexual attraction. And like the Kinsey scale’s spectrum, some people identify according to where they lie on the spectrum. Some people who don’t experience sexual attraction identify with the label “asexual.” Those who are not completely asexual, but who lean towards the asexual side of the spectrum, may identify under the “Ace Umbrella.” Gray-asexual and demi-sexual are
commonly used labels for people under this umbrella. Graces, or gray-A’s, are people who experience sexual attraction infrequently or not very strongly; demis are people who only experience sexual attraction to people with whom they share a strong emotional bond. The first time I ever felt sexual attraction was last year when I was 20 years old. Before I was 20, I had been a virgin in every sense of the term — had never had sex with anyone, never kissed anyone, never held anyone’s hand. I had no clue what was “wrong” with me. All throughout high school and even middle school, I had had crushes
thing called sexual attraction that I might need for that to happen. (Asexual people can have sex and be physical, but I personally can’t let people touch me without it. It scares and repulses me.) I wanted to talk about my experience with asexuality, because it seems that, like myself, a lot of people have never heard of, nor considered, asexuality. This is another example of normalization in the works, where it is just assumed that everyone likes sex and wants sex, and the people who don’t are left thinking to themselves that there is something terribly wrong with them for not having any, rather
The first time I ever felt sexual attraction was when I was 20 years old. express their interest in me, but the thought of them touching me freaked me out so much that I always turned them down. I explained it away because I just thought that meant I didn’t like them like I thought I did. It wasn’t until I was thrust into Cornell’s hook up culture that I learned that romance and sexual attraction were completely separate things. I actually had to have someone sit down and explain to me what people could possibly find pleasurable in grinding with strangers at frat parties, and for the first time, I had someone explain sexual attraction to me. It blew my mind. All along I had just assumed that sex would be in my future, never considering that there is this
than recognizing it as a natural part of their sexuality. It is easier to embrace your sexuality when you know that “it’s a thing,” and there is an entire community of people with experiences just like yours. I also wanted to speak to the disappointment that has plagued my experience with asexuality, and which I could imagine might plague the whole community. Because of the unfortunate conflation of sex and romance, my minimal sex life means I don’t have much of a romantic life either. Like I said, I missed out on potentially meaningful relationships because I couldn’t understand my lack of sexual attraction. But what has really hurt for me has been witnessing the disappointment of
my potential partners. The people whom I didn’t date because I didn’t know what to tell them. The people who ditched me when I told them, “I like you, but I can’t have sex with you.” My asexuality has made me feel very lonely at different times and periods of my life. I, and most other people, I’d imagine, have no model for what a romantic relationship looks like without physical intimacy. With no model, I have no idea how to craft one of my own, let alone how to get someone to stick with me through it long enough to work something out. Luckily, though, there are resources out there to help! Like I said, there is a community of people out there with shared experiences who can offer that model for a sexless relationship. There are online forums and websites to visit. Even on our campus, Haven: The LGBTQ Student Union, has just introduced a new support group for the Ace community, ACE. Although I doubt there are any two experiences with sexuality that are the same, there are always people out there with overlapping experiences with whom we can find community. It is just our task to make these communities known and a part of the norm, so that no person feels as if there is something wrong. Bailey Dineen is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. Pronouns: They, Them, There.They may be reached at btd32@cornell.edu. Genderfucked appears alternate Fridays this semester.
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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT The Wolf of Wall Street: Stocks and Shocks NICOLE HAMILTON Sun Staff Writer
About 30 seconds after walking into The Wolf of Wall Street, I realized that I should not have gone to the movies with my parents. Nothing says family bonding like an on-screen gay orgy or Leonardo DiCaprio blowing cocaine into a prostitute. The story of New York stock broker Jordan Belfort is a three hour deluge of drugs, sex The Wolf of Wall Street and money, Directed by Martin Scorsese candy-coated in black Starring Leonardo DiCaprio comedy. Like any coming-ofage tale, Belfort starts out as an innocent 22year-old who wants to make it in the world. Eager and smart, he heads to big, bad Wall Street where the fun really begins. He learns from his boss (Matthew McConaughey, still gaunt from Dallas Buyers Club) that the key to financial success is sex, cocaine and masturbation. Cocaine is to Jordan Belfort as spinach is to Popeye — I’d love to see that analogy make it onto the SAT. However, out of all of his addictions and dependencies — including Quaaludes, Xanax, Ambien, pot, cocaine, morphine and hookers — he is most proudly addicted to money. “Enough of this shit’ll make you invincible, able to conquer the world and eviscerate your enemies,” Belfort states after unrolling a 100-dollar bill dusted with the cocaine he just snorted. Belfort, known as The Wolf amongst his colleagues and
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employees, is obsessed with possessions. Hell, who isn’t? He even thinks of his own wife (he’s moved on to wife number two) and children as possessions — a true trophy family. Terence Winter, who wrote the screenplay, accurately describes Belfort’s second wife Naomi (Margot Robbie), as a living wet dream. Robbie expertly conceals her Australian background with a killer Brooklyn accent in her American film debut. Though Naomi appears to be a bimbo who only makes eyes at men with money, she becomes a voice of reason throughout the film. She is fine with hiding money in Swiss bank accounts and putting up with Jordan’s ridiculous habits, but draws a line where it affects her and her children’s well-being. Through Naomi, the bimbo who becomes suddenly maternal when Belfort crashes a car with young son in tow, The Wolf of Wall Street leaves room for a dense feminist critique of the plot, but that would ruin all the fun. Scorsese has worked with DiCaprio many times in the past (Shutter Island, The Departed, The Aviator), but never on this sort of project. DiCaprio’s character is so dramatic and largerthan-life that he feels like a character out of Stefan’s Saturday Night Live sketch. Scorsese’s portrait of Belfort’s life continues to shock more the longer the film goes on. The film uses the word “fuck” more frequently than almost any other movie in existence, not counting Fuck, an aptly-named documentary about the word. At 569 uses, that means “fuck” was used 3.18 times per minute. I like to imagine the script meetings when Winter, Scorsese and Belfort (the actual Jordan Belfort helped out) sat and decided how many boobs, vaginas, and lines of cocaine to show. The film begs the question: is there such a
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thing as moderation? For a film centered on such an unlikeable character and excessive crime, the end feels gentle. To give a serious ending, reminiscent of Catch Me If You Can, to a film that opens with stock brokers tossing dwarves onto bullseyes in the middle of the office just seems wrong. Though an offensive ride, The Wolf of Wall Street is an exhilarating one, and viewers are right in the passenger seat. Hopefully not in the passenger seat of his Lamborghini, helicopter or massive yacht, all of which he crashed. Leo already got a Golden Globe for The Wolf of Wall Street, but will he finally get his Oscar? If he wins, I hope he uses McConaughey's money chant in place of an acceptance speech. Nicole Hamilton is a junior in the College of Art, Architecture and Planning. She can be reached at nhamilton@cornellsun.com
How Sex-, Booze- and Drug-Suffused Is The Wolf of Wall Street, Actually?
f your holiday season wasn’t uplifted by the veritable orgy of immorality that was the magnificent black comedy called The Wolf of Wall Street, then, well, you were doing it wrong. Not only was the film a master-course in the cinematic techniques of the 71-year-old virtuoso Martin Scorsese, but it was also the most vicarious modern tale of debauchery and capitalist privilege you’ll ever experience. No less subtle than an anvil falling on your head, Wolf aims solely to shock — and often succeeds. If you don’t enjoy horrible people doing horrible things and admitting to being horrible, then please silently scorn us simpleminded plebeians from your lonesome corner of moral victory. The rest of the bread-andgames public will giddily revel in this endurance test of human indecency, as celebrated anti-hero Jordan Belfort (Leonardo DiCaprio) snorts anthills of coke with his pseudo-mob family of criminal financiers. It’s the classic tale of rags-to-riches-to-federalindictment, surfeit of all the booze, babes and blow to make the experience fast, funny and very, very filthy. If at any time during the three-hour marvel of vulgarity and manic exuberance, you thought, “Gee, this is hilarious, but wouldn’t it be great if this was real life?” Well, welcome to a 2014 in which a real Jordan Belfort exists, having actually lived and penned the narrative we’ve come to love. Author of an autobiography of the same name, Belfort’s numerous onscreen monologues were derived, almost unaltered in their entirety, from his book’s passages — including the infamous Lemmons 714 story. Nevertheless, some of the tales must be too outlandish to be true. A case of Hollywood juicing up a tamer story? As the
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FBI agent assigned to Belfort’s case corroborates, “I tracked this guy for ten years, and everything he wrote was true.” Still, here I am to suss out fact from fiction, history from Hollywood and (most importantly) cousin marriage from flying midgets. So what’s true-to-form and true-to-film in The Wolf of Wall Street? First off, the broad strokes of the film remain faithful to reality. That is, a wide-eyed Belfort began working for the venerable L.F. Rothschild firm before falling victim to the thousands displaced by Black Friday. He switched to a small-time penny stock brokerage, which he eventually bought out and renamed Stratton-Oakmont, starting inside a friend’s car dealership in sub-
Alice Wang Profanity Prayers urbia. Stratton-Oakmont, staffed by Belfort’s ragtag group of childhood friends, grew immensely rich by the same pump-anddump, fast-cash schemes that later had the company indicted. Along the way, Belfort remarried to a “Miller-Lite girl,” consumed mountains of coke and ‘ludes, billed his sexcapades with hookers as tax write-offs, taunted (foolishly) the FBI and SEC and ultimately reinvented himself as a motivational speaker. But some of the most bizarre truths and incredible falsehoods follow below: 1. Belfort adopted his formula for success (masturbation, cocaine and hookers) from his employer at Rothschild.
True. Belfort’s former boss, Mark Hanna, played by Matthew McConaughey, gives a power-lunch monologue in the film which is ripped pretty much word-for-word from the book. His guttural chanting and chest thumps, however, are actually adopted from McConaughey’s own on-set acting exercise. 2. Belfort pops the legendary Lemmons 714s, crashing his car and discovering the “cerebral palsy” phase of his delirium. True. The car was actually a Benz, not a Lambo. Deranged, he had no recollection of the numerous motor accidents he caused along the way — including a hit-and-run that sent a woman to the hospital. 3. In the Stratton Oakmont offices, midgets were thrown during office parties. Half-true. While midgets were undeniably present at these shindigs, there is contention as to their level of participation. Belfort admits to the midget-tossing competition, while Porush (Donnie Azoff/Jonah Hill) claims no such abuse occurred. 4. Belfort’s second-in-command married his own cousin. True. Porush, the likely inspiration for Jonah Hill’s Donnie Azoff, did marry his first cousin because she was “a real piece of ass.” 5. Belfort’s second-in-command swallows a goldfish. True. Porush recalls, “If you don’t do more business, I’m going to eat your goldfish!” 6. Belfort tries to save his second-in-command from indictment. False. Maybe Scorsese didn’t want to completely malign his protagonist, especially in such a story of celebrated villainy, but the truth in the matter is that Belfort sold Porush out with the whole lot of them for a reduced prison sentence of 22 months. The two no longer speak to each other. 7. Belfort’s wife spreads her legs on secu-
rity footage. True. Like many women, she used sex as a weapon in marriage. Unlike many women, her security guards (both named Rocco) got to watch. 8. Belfort physically abused his wife during domestic disputes. True. In Belfort’s memoir, he admits to kicking his wife down the stairs as their young daughter watches on. In real life, he also tried to kidnap their daughter while high, crashing into a pillar on their driveway. Disgusting? Definitely. After all, DiCaprio says what attracted him to Belfort was his willingness to admit to all acts, good or grievously bad, because of his “singular transparency.” 9. Belfort laundered money through his aunt in-law and distant Swiss acquaintances. True. His wife had a real English aunt, who did die after a transaction. However, Porush does not recall specifically taping the cash to a woman’s breasts (Belfort does). 10. A female employee allows Belfort and crew to shave her head for ten grand to pay for breast implants. True. However, there was no chimpanzee present to catch this office event. 11. Belfort sunk his own yacht in Italy. True. Like in the movie, the yacht was named after his wife and it was formerly owned by Coco Chanel. While decidedly not sober, he insisted the captain sail through the Mediterranean storm. Also remarkably true is the incident in which Belfort lands his private chopper on his estate’s lawn, rabid on a cocktail of controlled substances.
Alice Wang is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at awang@cornellsun.com. Profanity Prayers runs alternate Thursdays this semester.
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Inside Llewyn Davis: One Man’s Failure, Another Film’s Treasure BY EMILY KLING Sun Staff Writer
haunting Llewyn throughout the film. Oscar Isaac heartwarmingly embodies the aloof Llewyn, who can be both sympathetic and disdainful at times but always pathetic. The cast as a whole is pretty spectacular, as the actors embody the contradictions which define their respective characters. Carey Mulligan, who plays Jean, is both angry and unforgiving while a victim who claims to care about Llewyn. Justin Timberlake, who plays Jean’s fiance Jim, is sort of a fool, while remaining successful and clearly talented. He writes and performs a fantastically funny and catchy song entitled “Please, Mr. Kennedy” — and the film makes the point that this song, unlike those by Llewyn Davis, will likely be a hit. The Gorefeins are both groupies of the folk scene and successful academics. The characters’ inherent contradictions are both charming and interesting and
The Coen Brothers’ most recent charmer, Inside Llewyn Davis, chronicles an unfortunate week in the life of folk singer in the early 1960s. While it could sound like a complaint to claim that the films narrative seems devoid of any action, it is actually what makes this film a novelty in its own right. The film centers on characters’ reactions and makes a commentary on the tragedy of those who don’t succeed. The film, which is set in the Greenwich Village folk scene during a brutal winter, seems both beautiful and melancholy at the same time. The settings are bleak but beautifully filmed. For example, if one were to pause the scene in which Jean (Carey Mulligan) yells at Llewyn Davis (Oscar Isaac), it would look cold yet Inside Llewyn Davis peaceful, concealing the emotions of the scene. Directed by the Coen Brothers Part of what makes Starring Oscar Isaac Llewyn so tragic is that he does possess some talent — just not enough. While in Chicago, Llewyn plays his music for an agent, Bob Grossman, who could potentially be his ticket to a more successful career and comeback. The agent responds to his act part of what makes Inside Llewyn Davis that he “doesn’t see much money here” such an honest and poignant film. The film begins with Llewyn being and that Llewyn should get a partner. The tragedy of that statement is that beaten up by a dark stranger in an alleyLlewyn has been established not as a tal- way outside of a folk club. It isn’t until entless loser, but rather as someone close the end of the film that the audience to success who falls just short of making understands the reason for this, and it is it. To rub salt in the wound, Llewyn did in this way that the film illustrates how once have a partner who killed himself the audience doesn’t entirely know — the pain of this event clearly still Llewyn Davis for all of the events we wit-
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ness throughout the film, with the exception of this first scene, seem to be missing their counterparts of what propelled them there in the first place. The end of the film makes it clear how this is a movie about reaction and not action. Throughout, the audience has been experiencing the consequences of Llewyn’s life without ever seeing the actual events. We don’t see his partner kill himself, but we hear Llewyn and his friends talk about the tragedy. We don’t see Llewyn sleep with Jean, but we hear her argue with him about her need for an abortion, telling him “[he] should wear two condoms … everything [he] touches turns to shit.” We see Llewyn find out about his 2-year old illegitimate son, but we never find out how that story came about and we never know what became of that boy either. And in the Coen Brother’s poignant design, we see Bob Dylan at the end of the film, further signifying how Llewyn Davis does not make it in the music industry.
Consequently, the Coen Brothers, in my estimate, are making a point about all the people we don’t see in this world. We see Bob Dylan in public life, but not those who failed and came before him. And therefore, Inside Llewyn Davis can be seen as an homage to all those artists out there who are good, but sadly, not quite good enough. If the Academy doesn’t get it and recognize what a true masterpiece Inside Llewyn Davis really is, then perhaps the ‘not good enough’ category should also be considered through the lens of luck or unfairness. As Inside Llewyn Davis should without question have been at the very least nominated for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Song (when has a song been so good, but also so organic to the movie?) and not just Best Cinematography and Sound Mixing. Emily Kling is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at ekling@cornellsun.com.
American Hustle: Who Said Con-Men Can’t Be Heroes? BY MEREDITH JOYCE Sun Staff Writer
American Hustle takes the love story of Silver Linings Playbook and drops it in the middle of a Madoff-like scandal, as seen from the point-of-view of the scammers themselves. Making gratuitous use of the 1970’s setting, the characters dress, talk and act absurdly. The situation seems ridiculous, and I wondered if this story was even worthy to tell.
The story, based on a real FBI operation nicknamed “ABSCAM,” is very convoluted and difficult to make cogent. The movie starts off in the beginning of Irving (Christian Bale) and Sydney’s (Amy Adams) not-so-legal arrangement with an FBI agent, Richard “Richie” DiMaso (Bradley Cooper), to bait a NJ politician, Carmine Polito (played by Jeremy Renner), into accepting a cash bribe to fund a new gambling enterprise in his city. COURTESY OF COLUMBIA
The film subsequently travels backward and reveals how exactly Sydney and Irving had gotten into the mess. The couple begins an affair after falling madly in love at a pool party (it’s the ’70s!) and begin to scam others into taking bad loans. Irving keeps his secret life away from his vacuous and domineering wife, Rosalyn (Jennifer Lawrence), whom he refuses to divorce out of kindness to his son. The FBI infiltrates the operation and Sydney and Irving are put at the mercy of overlyambitious and somewhat delusional rookie agent DiMaso. DiMaso decides to cut them a deal: the two can get out of prison time if they help the FBI catch a handful of corrupt politicians in a similar scheme. Cue the opening scene, now knowing they’re fighting for survival: not just for themselves, but for their relationship and the well-being of Irving’s family. Despite the hard-to-follow story, David O. Russell’s direction is decidedly capable. Russell, whose past work
includes 2010’s The Fighter and and prejudices: sometimes even last year’s Best Picture nominee hustling is necessary to survive. Silver Linings Playbook, reunites Impressively, all four leads of the with many actors American Hustle whom he has previDirected by David O. Russell o u s l y Starring Christian Bale worked w i t h , including Lawrence, C o o p e r, and Adas. It’s another feat altogether that the cast movie — Christian Bale, Amy manage to make such despica- Adams, Bradley Cooper and ble, unrelatable people sympa- Jennifer Lawrence — have been thetic to audiences. nominated in each of this year’s I feel that the film’s success has Academy Awards acting catebeen in its ability to fully realize gories. Aside from those four, it themes like heroism, bravery has six other Academy Awards and survival with sometimes nominations, leading nearly unflattering realism. The subject every other film recognized with is chaotic, but Russell’s work is a staggering ten nominations. clear, understandable and American Hustle is the movie to human, which is a credit to his watch this awards season. ability to take on otherwise overwhelming material and make it Meredith Joyce is a junior in the School digestible. The film encourages of Industrial and Labor Relations. She audiences to take a second look may be reached at at their pre-conceived notions mjoyce@cornellsun.com.
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ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) — Peyton Manning found no need to dunk his right hand in a bucket of ice water Thursday — it was 9 degrees when the Broncos returned to their practice field for the first time since clinching a spot in next week’s Super Bowl at MetLife Stadium. ‘Anytime you can have ... a situation that you can simulate during practice that might be in a game, that’s always a good thing,’ said Manning, his breath vaporizing as he spoke from the podium after the two-hour workout. Manning, who spent much of his career inside in Indianapolis, has prepared for some cold-weather games since coming to Denver in 2012 by soaking his right hand in ice water. He welcomed the blast of wintry weather after a relatively balmy stretch of January, which included a 63 degree Sunday afternoon when he led the Broncos past the New England Patriots for the AFC title. The knock on Manning is that for all his greatness he crumbles in the cold and in the playoffs — he has just one championship ring in 12 previous trips to the postseason, eight of which ended in firstround exits, including last year’s doubleovertime loss to Baltimore on a frigid night
in Denver. and they’re favored by oddsmakers for the Manning could take care of both of 30th straight game — Manning will those criticisms next week when the match little brother Eli’s two Super Bowl Broncos face the Seattle Seahawks in East rings. Eli said Peyton doesn’t have to beat Rutherford, N.J., in the first outdoor Super Bowl ever held in a cold-weather Seattle to secure his legacy, however. ‘I think Peyton’s already created his own city. With a win, he would be the first quar- legacy,’ Eli said during a conference call Thursday. ‘He’s played at a very terback to lead two teams to the high level for a long period of title. time and he’s overcome injuries Although it’s too early for forecasters to predict what the and obviously set numerous records and been on a lot of weather will be, there’s a decent playoff teams, playing in his chance for freezing temperathird Super Bowl.’ tures or snow by kickoff on the Peyton’s resume is impresnight of Feb. 2. sive: 13-time Pro Bowler, sevenAlthough Manning is 167time All-Pro and odds-on 73 in the regular season, he’s P. MANNING favorite to win his fifth MVP 11-11 in the playoffs. And he’s 4-7 in games that are below freezing at after setting NFL records by throwing for kickoff, although some of those were 55 TDs and 5,447 yards. Eli does not think the cold will be a facgames where he played sparingly because the Colts had already locked up playoff tor in the game, either. ‘I don’t think this hurts or helps either seeding. Others were against New England, when the Patriots clearly had the team,’ he said. ‘Peyton has been in Denver this year and played outside in a lot of cold better team. And Manning did complete 39 passes games. I think obviously if it were to snow for 397 yards and four touchdowns against or be very windy, it could be a disadvantage Tennessee last month when the tempera- to the Broncos, just because how much they like to throw the ball, compared to Seattle ture at kickoff in Denver was 18 degrees. If the Broncos beat the Seahawks — and their running game.
‘For the most part, it’s really going to be the best team that is going to win, whoever plays the best football that day. It’s going to come down to that and execution. The weather isn’t going to decide the game.’ Although the Seahawks are more runoriented, the Broncos do have a good 1-2 punch in running backs Knowshon Moreno, who grew up 45 minutes from the Meadowlands, and Montee Ball, who combined for 2,290 yards from scrimmage and 17 touchdowns this season. Denver safety Mike Adams, who’s also from New Jersey, scoffed at the notion that inclement weather could hurt the Broncos. ‘We’re talking about the Super Bowl. I’m not worried about the cold, I promise you that,’ Adams said. ‘Weren’t we practicing in like minus-3 degree weather here? So I’m definitely not worried about any cold weather. If anything, I’m worrying about them cancelling the game.’ The NFL’s contingency plans call for the game to be played anywhere from Friday, Jan. 31, to Monday, Feb. 3, in case of a major snowstorm. Manning — who is 10-3 while wearing a glove on his throwing hand the last two seasons — and the Broncos are embracing the elements.
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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — They are two of the NFL’s most wellknown quarterbacks. They telephone each other at least once a week to talk shop, work together on an offseason passing camp, and have appeared in a number of television commercials. Each had a chance to host Saturday Night Live. Each is a Super Bowl MVP. There is something else about Peyton and Eli Manning. First and foremost, they’re brothers. They know each other inside out. They root for each other. They bleed for each other. They’re family. So when little brother Eli says Peyton doesn’t need to beat the Seattle Seahawks and win a second Super Bowl to secure his legacy as one of the NFL’s greatest quarterbacks, believe him. “I think Peyton’s already created his own legacy,” Eli said Thursday during a conference call 10 days before Peyton and Broncos meet the Seahawks in the Super Bowl at MetLife Stadium. “He’s played at a very high level for a long period of time and he’s overcome injuries and obviously set numerous records and been on a lot of playoff teams, playing in his third Super Bowl. I don’t think that’s something that he’s worried about. “There will always be arguments about who is the greatest? Or who is the best,” Eli said. “I think if you’re in that argument, if you’re one of the names thrown around in there, I think you’ve already created a pretty good legacy.” Peyton’s resume is impressive: fourtime MVP, 13-time Pro Bowler, seven-
time All Pro. Sure, there is only one title. Two would be the icing, and put him on par with Eli. For the past few days, Eli Manning said his big job has been to get his brother extra tickets for the first outdoor Super Bowl in a cold-weather city. Barring late add-ons, he’s already hit the request number. “Obviously, I know what it’s like with the Super Bowl and a lot of people are trying to figure out if they’re coming to the games, so I’m trying to take some of that stress off of him and help manage some of those things,” Eli said. “That way, he can focus on work and getting the game plan.” While the two have exchanged some text messages, the brothers have not seen each other since Denver’s win over New England in the AFC title game on Sunday. They hope to get together early next week in the New York for a few hours, when Eli will give Peyton the secrets about playing in MetLife Stadium and his insight into playing Seattle, which the Giants did on here on Dec. 15. The way the Seahawks’ defense dominated New York that day in a 23-0 win, Peyton might well ignore the advice. After that, Peyton will take center stage during the weeklong media frenzy and Eli will get ready to watch only his second game at the Meadowlands. The first was in 2003 when the Jets crushed Peyton and the Colts in an AFC playoff game at Giants Stadium. Eli was still at Ole Miss. There is some coincidence about this
game. When Eli won his second Super Bowl in 2012, it was in Peyton’s stadium in Indianapolis. “I’m rooting for him,” Eli said. “It’s not like watching any other football game. If I’m watching two other teams, I’m kind of casually watching and don’t really care who wins or loses. Here, it’s a little bit more nerve-racking. I don’t get nervous playing football games, I get nervous watching my brother play, and I guess because I’ve been doing this for a long time and you kind of know key moments and key plays.” Eli does not think the cold will be a factor in the game. The bigger issue for his brother would be snow and wind. That might affect the Broncos more because they are a passing offense. The Seahawks are more run-oriented. Coming into the season, Eli hoped the Giants might become the first time to play the Super Bowl in their own stadium. A 0-6 start derailed that and led to a 7-9 season that left New York out of the playoffs for the fourth time in five years. If he’s not going, Manning is happy his brother made it. There is a little jealousy, too. “It kind of makes you want to get back to that situation and kind of get back to working and getting your mind set on doing whatever I have to do to get the Giants back to the championship games and get back to Super Bowls,” Eli said. Sunday, he’ll watch, and root for Peyton, just like his big brother did for him in 2008 and ‘12, when the Giants won it all. That’s the family way.
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After Loss to Columbia, Red Searches for First Ivy Victory By NIKITA DUBNOV Sun Staff Writer
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Freshman sensation | Freshman guard Darryl Smith was rewarded for his 12 point effort against Columbia last weekend with Ivy Rookie of the Week honors.
After recording its first win of the season against Oberlin over winter break, the men’s basketball team entered Ivy play with some momentum. Though the squad struggled with a difficult schedule all year while playing against regional rivals and national powerhouses such as Louisville and Syracuse, the Red was hopeful things would turn around come Ivy play. However, the Red did not find the desired success in its first conference matchup against Columbia last Saturday in New York City. Similar to its performance in many games this season, the team was highly competitive in the first half of play against the Lions. The Red fought back from a double-digit deficit in the closing minutes of the first half. The Cornell guards were on the attack in that half. Despite Columbia leading 29-26 at the break, freshman guard Robert Hatter, junior captain and guard Devin Cherry and freshman guard Darryl Smith all had significant scoring numbers by the end of the first half. However, Cornell did not play with the same effectiveness in the second half. The defensive intensity that the Red played with in the first 20 minutes, which led to eight forced turnovers, was not as prevalent. Columbia quickly jumped out to a double-digit lead, led by junior forward Alex
Rosenberg and sophomore guard Grant Mullins. This Saturday, the Red will once again take on the Lions at home in Newman Arena. The team is looking to rebound off of the mistakes that occurred in the prior matchup, as well as to continue exploiting the holes in Columbia’s game. A major factor in the upcoming game will be the play of Cornell’s sophomore guard Nolan Cressler, who has become a star on the team as the season has progressed. He has been a scorer the team can trust to lead the offensive attack in every game. In last Saturday’s game, Cressler got off to a slow start in the first half, missing all four of his shots from the field. It was only in the closing minutes of the second half that Cressler was able to knock down his first basket and get his name onto the box score. Despite missing his first seven shots, Cressler ended the Columbia matchup with 11 points. The Red will look for the sophomore to provide a good brunt of the scoring in the upcoming game. More importantly, the Red will need to play efficient defense to stop Columbia’s dynamic trio of scorers: Alex Rosenberg, Grant Mullins and sophomore guard Maodo Lo. If all things come together, the Red can look forward to its first win in Ivy League competition. Nikita Dubnov can be reached at ndubnov@cornellsun.com.
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Sherman’s story. Though at the moment he is at the forefront of the media, just as Christie is, Sherman will soon become a footnote in the NFL’s history if he continues his egotistical rants. NFL.com captured soundbites from the moments right before Sherman’s big play, up until the NFC championship presentation. First we hear him addressing his teammates on the bench: “They’re about to try me, they’re about to try me, I’m gonna capitalize.” There is no mention of team defense. After the play, Sherman pounds his chest and chants something that is, at least to me, unrecognizable, until his teammates surround him. But he promptly pushes them away and sprints over to 49ers receiver Michael Crabtree, offering him a hand and saying, “hell of a game.” Crabtree shoves him away. An obvious mistake by Crabtree. This makes Sherman out to be the hero. He was simply congratulating his opponent, and he was scorned for it. But why at this moment? After securing an NFC championship, Sherman should have been celebrating with his team. Instead, he chose to say something to Crabtree first, which he clearly, and justifiably, felt was Sherman’s way of mocking him. In his postgame interview, Sherman made no mention of his team. There was no generic, “we made it here as a team, this took a team effort.” All we heard from Sherman was how he was the best corner in the league, how no one should ever talk about him. It was the Richard Sherman show, and the young corner has shown in the past how prone he is to this tendency. In an interview with Skip Bayless in March, Sherman told Bayless he
was “better than him at life,” citing his all-pro NFL selection and Stanford education as reasons for this. Yes, Richard Sherman is both an intelligent and a talented football player. He has surmounted incredible obstacles to make it to this level. He cares about his background, and he gives back to his community.
The sad truth about the professional sports world is that it is an egotistical one.
Nobody can ever take any of that away from him. It is the “me-first” mentality, which has become so evident this week, that has gotten Richard Sherman into this mess. I realize that writing a column like this only magnifies the problem. Talking about, writing about and listening to Richard Sherman will only serve to stroke his ego more. The sad truth about the professional sports world is that it is an egotistical one, and we as sports fans add fuel to the fire when we put these athletes on a pedestal. Sometimes, it is difficult for a 25-year old like Richard Sherman to stand on that pedestal without it crumbling from beneath him. The world of politics is the same, if not worse. When constantly in the limelight, it is hard for a politician to disconnect his or her ego from a constituency that both relies on and scrutinizes every move. Amid this scandal, Christie was caught defending himself — a natural human reaction — but one that can only bring more unwanted attention to a politician. In the end, Christie’s goal should be to protect his constituency, not his own image. Because people like Christie and Sherman are forced to speak out,
their voices are heard the loudest. As a Stanford graduate playing in the NFL, Sherman has the perfect opportunity to use that voice to become a role model for aspiring athletes. He can only do this by caring less about himself and by overlooking people’s doubts about his success. As sports fans, we need to stop encouraging the Richard Shermans of the professional sports world and start listening to other voices; even voices that are not speaking English. Tanaka just signed the fifth-highest contract for a pitcher in MLB history, without even throwing a pitch in the MLB. But in his first press conference, Tanaka said this through a translator: “I’m going there to win the World Series.” Not to win the Cy Young or to become the best Japanese-born pitcher in the game, but to win the World Series with his team. It is not just the wealthy athletes that we should listen to. Blue Jays’ infielder Munenori Kawasaki made $625,000 in 2013 and was never able to secure a steady starting role. But in a post-game interview after a walk-off hit, Kawasaki pulled out a slip of paper and, in broken English with a smile that lit up the stadium, recited the words, “My teammates gave me an opportunity, so I wanted to do something about it.” It seems that some professional athletes lose sight of the fact that their fame and success is complemented, if not necessitated, by their teammates. Richard Sherman may have realized this after the fact, but it was his initial, gut reaction that showed his true self-centeredness. It is important that we start listening to the voices of athletes like Tanaka and Kawasaki, because they are making themselves heard in a way that is infinitely more dignified. Scott Chiusano can be reached at schiusano@cornellsun.com.
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Hobey Baker finalist, is currently third in the nation in overall scoring, while younger brother Matt is fifth in the country in power play tallies. “St. Lawrence [has] been kind of up and down a little bit throughout the course of the year,“ Schafer said. “They boast some great offensive defensemen in [Gavin] Bayreuther and Justin Baker, they’re got some great offensive players obviously in both Carey brothers and Jeremy Wick. You’ve got to make sure you don’t give those guys any time and space, and if you do, I think they can make you pay — it’s just like any other good offensive player in the league.“ After seven weeks without a home regular season game, Schafer said he was excited to return to Lynah and the home-game atmosphere. “It’ll be great games [and I’m] looking forward ... to playing in front of a regular crowd here for the first time since we played Colgate,“ he said. “It’s been a long time, it’s great to see the students back on campus and it should be an exciting weekend.“ McCarron added that he was excited to be back in front of a home crowd and that the fans should add an energy boost to the team. “Obviously coming to play at home is way better than a seven-hour road trip to Dartmouth,”he said. “I think with the student section, they’re always rockin’ and rollin’, so it’s easy to feed off them.“ Emily Berman can be reached at eberman@cornellsun.com.
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Icers Search for Revenge Against Clarkson at Lynah By EMILY BERMAN Sun Assistant Sports Editor
Following a disappointing weekend in which the Red eked out three points but suffered from inconsistent effort, the men’s ice hockey team returns to Lynah for its first home regular season games of second semester. The No. 12/12 Red (9-4-4, 5-3-3) is set to take on St. Lawrence (8-12-2, 2-6-2) on Friday before gearing up for nationally ranked No. 13/13 Clarkson (15-7-2, 8-2)
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on Saturday. The Red, which has lost just one of the last ten games, last met the Saints and the Golden Knights in mid-November. The team turned in two strikingly different performances that weekend; the first was a lackluster 3-2 loss to Clarkson on Friday, in contrast with an explosive performance the next day against St. Lawrence where the Red scored four first period goals en route to a 5-2 victory. The previous game against Clarkson still stands out
On the attack | Junior forward Brian Ferlin scored twice in the Red’s win over St. Lawrence earlier this season.
as a sore spot for the team, with head coach Mike Schafer ’86 comparing last weekend’s sloppy 1-1 tie with Dartmouth to the November match against the Golden Knights. “Saturday[’s game against Dartmouth] was just a real disappointment for us as a coaching staff,” he said. “I don’t think we’ve played that poorly since maybe Clarkson “I think, when when we were at Clarkson. Just lack of energy, lack of focus we went up within our systems — for whatthere last time, ever reason, our compete level was very, very poor.” that game During that 3-2 loss against wasn’t a great Clarkson — which became the effort.” Red’s fourth straight game without a win — Cornell dropped a John McCarron goal in the first shift of the game and let in Clarkson’s third and winning goal with less than a minute remaining, squashing the Red’s comeback attempt. “I think when we went up there last time, that game wasn’t a great effort,” said junior captain John McCarron. “They beat us with 30 seconds left, and we didn’t even play our best, so I think coming into the weekend — if we play our game — it shouldn’t be too much of a task to get a win against them.” Although St. Lawrence was ranked No. 17 the last time the Red faced the Saints, the Saints have suffered seven straight losses and have given up more than four goals in six of those games. Despite the poor record, the Saints’ roster includes several top-tier players, including the Carey brothers. Senior forward Greg Carey, a former
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ichard Sherman’s outburst in his postgame interview last Sunday has monopolized sports media across the country. News outlets everywhere are scrambling to interview him. Even the Yankees’ $155 million signing of Japanese pitcher Masahiro Tanaka only briefly eclipsed Sherman’s story. Inevitably, the aftermath has been blown out of proportion. The problem with Sherman’s rant is not his racial or educational background, as Stephen A. Smith insinuated on
high traffic by the George Washington Bridge. An article in the New York Times by Frank Bruni, titled “The ‘I’ in Christie’s Storm,” suggested that Christie will continue to be scrutinized until he can detach himself from his ego. Bruni noted the number of times Christie spoke about himself in interviews about the scandal: “I am not a focus-group-tested, blow-dried candidate or governor,” “I am who I am” and “I am not a bully,” were just a few examples. “Without enough ‘you’ and
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This Saturday, the Cornell men’s wrestling team will take on Ivy League opponent Brown at the Friedman Wrestling Center. Historically, the Red has been able to hold its own against Brown, winning last season’s match against the Bears with an impressive score of 35-6. “We feel pretty confident going into our match against Brown. We have always done pretty well against them, and I expect the same thing this year,” said senior Mike Nevinger. After coming off a win last
weekend against Harvard, the Red looks to carry its momentum forward and earn another win on Saturday, especially since Brown is in its conference. This match is the second Ivy competition of the season. The team has still been diligently preparing for the match, despite its confident attitude. “Watching weight, working hard; the usual things. Nothing really changes; just striving to stay focused and learn and grow each match,” said sophomore Nahshon Garrett. While Cornell has seen much success this season — remaining undefeated thus far — it is still
one of the youngest teams in the league — with a lot of talent coming from the freshman class. “I always love watching our freshmen. They all go out there and wrestle hard the entire match. They never fail to make our matches entertaining,” Nevinger said. Overall, the Red looks to improve its record to 6-0 and put another Ivy win under its belt. “If everyone wrestles well, it is very possible that we can win every match,” Nevinger said. Anna Fasman can be reached at afasman@cornellsun.com.
Who’ s on First? First Take Wednesday. The real question here is: When has an athlete lost himself in himself? A similar question emerges from Chris Christie’s “Bridgegate” scandal. Christie’s political aspirations are on a slow decline as his administration is being investigated for the role it played in creating
‘we,’ a politician inevitably bumps up against a word that, unlike apology, is correctly spelled with an I. That’s isolation,” Bruni wrote. While politicians and athletes are very different breeds, there are similar lessons to be learned from See CHIUSANO page 15
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On top of the Ivies | Sophomore Nahshon Garrett said that the team has a focus on learning from each match.